For a brief period, my husband was involved
in a partnership that fell apart
when his partner became ill. Because of
that illness, we were not able to complete
all of the partnership's contracts.
When I look back, I don't understand
why we made it a partnership in the first
place. It's not as if I didn't know better. I
suppose we used the partnership form
because both men had known each for
many years, had worked together on
other projects before, had approximately
the same skill levels, and brought roughly
the same assets and number of contacts
to the business. In other words,
they seemed equals, so why not be equal
partners?
However, we should have